Jobs for Michigan:
Michigan’s number one priority must be jobs. We have a budget problem because we have a jobs problem. We have to get to the root of this crisis by focusing on job retention and creation. We can’t keep fighting Indiana, other states, and even other countries for every single job. I know what it takes to bring and to keep jobs here.
It’s MY number one priority. Retaining and bringing jobs to Michigan will take real leadership and experience. I’ve worked hard over the last 30 years to bring jobs to Southwest Michigan, fighting government taxes and intrusion every step of the way. I know what it takes to bring and retain jobs and you can count on me to use my 30 years of economic development experience to work hard for Michigan jobs.
Common sense government:
Now is not the time to take small steps. Michigan needs to make bold reforms to get back on track. As legislators it is our job to look at every option and sometimes to take unpopular positions in order to do the right thing.
It’s time to put our priorities first and to build the budget from the bottom up - not the top down.
It’s time to take a careful look at the role government plays. To use common sense in our decision making process and to focus on our priorities – creating jobs, improving our quality of life, decreasing your tax burden, and educating our children.
Sharon Tyler has a record of voting to:
Protect Taxpayers
- Prevent property taxes from going up when property values go down.
- Create a homeownership savings program.
- Reduce vehicle registration fees for veterans.
- Make voting easier for our troops that are overseas.
Bring Jobs to Michigan
- Create a small business loan guarantee program.
- Eliminate urban blight by giving tax incentives to businesses that bring vacant property back to usefulness.
- Extend the Brownfield Tax Credits to 2014.
Promote Common Sense Government
- Create a part-time legislature in Michigan.
- Eliminate lifetime health care benefits for legislators.
- Cut legislators’ salaries.
- Move the state budget deadline from October 1 to July 1 and to dock legislators’ pay each day the budget is late.
- Combine similar departments to cut costs.
Encourage Education & Safety
- Change the high school curriculum requirements to allow alternative methods to learn algebra II.
- Lower the blood alcohol limit for watercraft, snowmobile, and ATV/ORV operators from .10 percent to .08.
- Fight for education reforms in schools to give our children the education they deserve.
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